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I wish Tennis Channel would stop pushing betting. It's bad enough betting sites are major sponsors. Now betting is part of the match commentary. Menwhile, players are suspended for match fixing. That little "bet responsibly," disclaimer is not enough to offset how unethical this is.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Tax cuts account for 38% of the national debt today, while recession responses and spending increases each caused 29%. And now the Republicans want to pass $5.3T more tax cuts. We can’t keep this up. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

Add up the deficits caused by covid stimulus, the TCJA, the IRA, and the BIL, and you still don’t reach the level allowed in the budget passed yesterday. So much for the party of fiscal discipline. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

The Senate budget could not be more irresponsible. It allows for $5.8T more in deficits over 10 years without even trying to cut spending. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

The Senate budget is incredibly vague (on purpose), so the House plan shows what the GOP might be aiming for — Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts that mostly serve the rich. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

The proposed Senate budget resolution would add almost 4x more to the debt than the first TCJA and 3x more than Biden’s covid-relief bill.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

submitted 2 days ago • 485 comments

At this point, you can’t convince me they aren’t manipulating the market. As soon as the indexes started peaking today, the White House started talking about tariffs on China, and everything is in the red again.

submitted 5 days ago • 1115 comments

This!

submitted 7 days ago • 694 comments

Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"

submitted 8 days ago • 1120 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 10 days ago • 964 comments

It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.

submitted 10 days ago • 4783 comments

This was….five months ago

submitted 10 days ago • 1678 comments

New cover of @economist.com

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

A documentary won an Oscar this month for highlighting repression that Palestinians face in the West Bank. And last night the Oscar-winning director was beaten and arrested, proving his point -- and underscoring the larger impunity, exacerbated by Trump. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Subscribe to the Atlantic magazine. The only journalists standing up to Trump

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Much of mainstream media has caved to Trump. X is pretty much state-run. Big law firms have bent the knee. His entire cabinet lies for him without hesitation. Thank you @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social for your courage and commitment to the truth, during a time when we need it the most.

submitted 17 days ago • 120 comments

Well, okay. You can read the "attack plans" yourself. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 18 days ago • 78 comments

ICYMI: “Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website”…in order “to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.”

submitted 29 days ago • 1831 comments

God help us

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Watching Dimitrov and Monfils play tennis is a joy. Incredible shot making. Youngsters coming up today could learn a lot from these two. It’s not just about who can hit the ball the hardest.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

About half of all births are covered by Medicaid. Over a third of all children are covered by Medicaid. More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid. Republicans in Congress are making a big mistake targeting these families’ health care to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

submitted 34 days ago • 183 comments

If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.

submitted 34 days ago • 317 comments

Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!! youtu.be/hycoCYenXls

submitted 36 days ago • 855 comments

Another ominous development: The Social Security Administration is no longer allowing parents in Maine to register newborns for SSNs at hospital after birth, is instead requiring them to visit a Social Security Office to register their children. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...

submitted 37 days ago • 509 comments

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

submitted 36 days ago • 831 comments

Some of my kids have disabilities . I cannot begin to say how vital the Bureau of Education - branch of the Board if Ed. - was in providing braille teachers & extraordinary expertise to give them the education they needed. Shutting down the Board of Education hurts American children

submitted 37 days ago • 57 comments

Russia’s leaders have said nothing about peace. They have made a list of demands on the US, the fulfillment of which allows them to broaden the war against Ukraine. And the US simply fulfills all of these Russian demands without question. That is only a peace process in the Orwellian sense.

submitted 38 days ago • 101 comments

AARP has created an easy way to contact your lawmakers and tell them Social Security must be protected. Learn more.👇

submitted 39 days ago • 419 comments

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

submitted 39 days ago • 1844 comments

"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

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Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

submitted 44 days ago • 113 comments

110 of 363 Taxpayer Assistance Centers and 5 of 10 call centers are going to be shut down, per a meeting that just happened at the IRS. During tax season.

submitted 44 days ago • 133 comments

NEW: A federal judge in CA just entered a TRO (temporary restraining order) against the Office of Personnel Management & its Acting Director, Charles Ezell, finding that OPM illegally terminated probationary federal employees because it had no authority to do so. www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r...

submitted 44 days ago • 358 comments

The UN has adopted Ukraine’s resolution condemning Russian aggression and demanding the immediate withdrawal of Putin’s forces, marking the war’s third anniversary. The U.S. joined Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Hungary in opposing the resolution. (I never thought I'd read these words)

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments